Virginia House Bill 5091 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-0)
Status: Introduced on August 19 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-11-09 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Required release of video or audio recording; discharge of firearm or use of stun gun or chemical irritant by law-enforcement officer. Requires that whenever a law-enforcement officer (i) discharges a firearm or (ii) uses a stun gun or chemical irritant on a person resulting in death or serious bodily injury, any video or audio recording that relates to such incident produced or obtained by a law-enforcement officer shall be open to inspection and available for release and posted on a website that is maintained by the law-enforcement agency or on any other website on which the law-enforcement agency generally posts information and that is available to the public or that clearly describes how the public may access such data within 15 days of the incident. The bill includes exceptions to such release.

Law-enforcement officers; required release of video or audio recording, discharge of firearm, etc.

Del. Sam Rasoul [D]	Del. Dawn Adams [D]	Sen. Lashrecse Aird [D]	Del. Betsy Carr [D]
Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy [D]	Del. Joshua Cole [D]	Del. Wendy Gooditis [D]	Del. Elizabeth Guzman [D]
Del. C.E. Hayes [D]	Del. Patrick Hope [D]	Del. Chris Hurst [D]	Del. Clinton Jenkins [D]
Del. Kaye Kory [D]	Del. Mark Levine [D]	Del. Delores McQuinn [D]	Del. Kathleen Murphy [D]
Del. Kenneth Plum [D]	Del. Marcia Price [D]	Del. Ibraheem Samirah [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-11-09	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2020-08-19	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2020-08-19	House	Presented and ordered printed 20200743D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
9	1	601	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+HB5091
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5091+hil